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Clean up of Savannah River Site's Cold War nuclear waste has been pushed back to fiscal year 2065, requiring an addition $25 billion and more than two extra decades of work, according to latest projections from the U.S. Department of Energy.

...said Jolene Seitz, a Department of Energy-Savannah River official.At its meeting Monday, the SavannahRiverSiteCitizensAdvisoryBoard saw a demonstration of a robot similar to those used in the tanks.The tanks, which are about 75...

...hazards at the facility, said Mark Senderling, a DOE recovery manager, who gave an update on the plant to the SRSCitizensAdvisoryBoard on Tuesday."It's been a pretty massive effort to upgrade the safety culture, the procedures, everything...

...October, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions project manager Dewitt Beeler said at a meeting Tuesday of the SavannahRiverSiteCitizensAdvisoryBoard.In 2012, federal safety officials singled out safety issues in the building, which has residual...

...waste by reclassifying commercial units as "research" reactors to make the material legal for export. The SRSCitizensAdvisoryBoard already has voiced opposition to bringing spent commercial fuel to the site.But politics and semantics aside...

...verify adequacy of the corrective actions after closure," he said.Marolyn Parson, the chairwoman of the SRSCitizensAdvisoryBoard, said she was surprised by the reported number of safety incidents, adding that the site has a strong safety...

...think public and government entities will be lined up against this, mainly the state of South Carolina and the SRSCitizensAdvisoryBoard," he said. "SRS doesn't need any more additional waste. The site is already under great strain to manage...